Sentences with phrase «describe changes to the climate»

The closed questions offered educators the opportunity to describe changes to the climate in their school after the election, while the open - ended ones gave them the opportunity to provide examples and descriptions of the kinds of behavior and interactions they had witnessed among students and how educators are handling the situation.

Not exact matches

Whilst accepting that there is two sides to every argument / position describing climate change as a big hoax and the depiction of a bleak medieval style future is not responsible analysis of the facts.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

Now we have a president who famously described climate change as a hoax advanced by the Chinese to undermine the US economy.

Gordon described the current refugee crisis as the worst yet and one that will get worse for 65 million displaced people due to impacts of climate change and unresolved conflict.

Using the language of evangelicalism, he has described his new - found adherence to the warming worriers as a religious conversion, a moment of sudden enlightenment which overcame him at an alarming presentation by Sir John Houghton, first chair of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in England in 2002.

Dr. Hayhoe is the co-author of the book A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith - Based Decisions and describes herself as «a spokesperson with one principal goal — to bring public awareness to the simple truth that the scientific debate is over, and now it's time for all of us to take action.»

Ribal et al. (2015) describe an optimization model (goal programming), which was used to design meals for school canteens by taking into account nutritional, climate change, and economic aspects.

Part of their challenge is that the world's media need — and use — overarching narratives to describe the climate change «mega-story».

The formation of the new fringe ECR group in 2010, memorably described by Nick Clegg as «a bunch of homophobes, anti-Semites and climate - change deniers,» isolated the Conservatives and dealt a major blow to Britain's influence in Europe.

So I can describe Russia as a «crypto - fascist» state (which it is) or declare that climate change is indeed a greater threat to the future of humanity than international terrorism (which it is) without getting my broadcasting head chopped off.

«Somehow we've got to get across the message that we're all going to die,» she says, describing her new role as the spokesperson for energy and climate change.

«In an interview with the Observer, Ed Davey describes a «Tea Party tendency» among Conservative MPs who question climate change and green investment as «perverse», and says it is creating deep uncertainty for an industry that could do much to help lift the country out of the economic doldrums.»

The visitor to the institution who identified series of challenges confronting the nation including «infant mortality, extreme poverty, insecurity, climate change, the rabid activities of terrorists, described these problems as monsters which can not be allowed to prowl the street without being controlled.

In an invitation to the event next week shared with POLITICO, de Blasio is described as «an outspoken progressive voice on national issues including immigration reform, fair trade agreements, gun laws, transportation infrastructure and climate change,» who «exemplifies the values of Vermont Democrats.»

Miliband's meetings with him were described as «frequently bruising, with occasional anger», allegedly due to Hoon's belief that climate change was «a load of tree - hugging hoolah».

Climate change brought so many new concepts to Marshallese culture that people simply folded English words into Marshallese to describe them at first, Rudiak - Gould says.

Climate change is yet another science - based global challenge requiring the best efforts of scientists worldwide — a point that ExxonMobil seemed to acknowledge in a statement that described the historic Paris climate agreement as «an important step forward.Climate change is yet another science - based global challenge requiring the best efforts of scientists worldwide — a point that ExxonMobil seemed to acknowledge in a statement that described the historic Paris climate agreement as «an important step forward.climate agreement as «an important step forward.»

He had previously described climate change as a natural process and suggested that scientists linking it to human activity might be skewing the results of their work.

The surveys asked 84,086 respondents to gauge the level of threat they attributed to climate change (some of the surveys used different words to describe the phenomenon, such as global warming and the greenhouse effect).

In her contribution to this feature, frequent Science Careers contributor Siri Carpenter describes how new programs are emerging to help scientists prepare for the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of climate change research while also ensuring a solid disciplinary grounding.

She became almost evangelical about climate change — something she had previously described as «not an exact science» — and implored her counterparts in the other river states to plan for the threat it posed to Southwestern cities.

The Willard's horseshoe bat, a newly described species from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and another species predicted to possibly go extinct due to climate change in the future.

These are just three examples of global change, a term used to describe climate trends and other environmental transformations.

«Nobody wanted change, really, within the industry,» said Ford, describing a boardroom atmosphere that was hostile to talk of climate change, energy efficiency and environmental protection.

Whiting, now a doctoral student at the University of Minnesota, describes the alligator as a survivor, withstanding sea - level fluctuations and extreme changes in climate that would have caused some less - adaptive animals to rapidly change or go extinct.

Today, with deforestation accounting for a substantial portion of human - induced carbon emissions, the researchers describe the payment program they studied as «a cost - effective way to avert deforestation in developing countries — and hence a powerful tool to mitigate climate change.»

The loss aversion that dogs our ability to deal with climate change as George Marshall describes (16 August, p 24)...

In common parlance, the phrase «global climate change» is often used to describe how present - day climate is changing in response to human activities.

In climate change mitigation with interactions, assessment leaders must consider the public perception of theories such as land - based strategies to compensate for industrial emissions, which may not meet expectations if they are described out of context.

It was interesting to note, however, that most of the projects described are based in the US, with its high proportion of vocal climate change naysayers.

«The change in flux described by our model happens over extremely long time periods, and it would be a mistake to think that these processes that are bringing about any of the atmospheric changes are occurring due to anthropomorphic climate change,» he said.

California Governor Jerry Brown described climate change as a «daunting threat,» with many similarities to nuclear dangers.

Scientific uncertainty has been described as a «monster» that prevents understanding and delays mitigative action in response to climate change.

To inform its Earth system models, the climate modeling community has a long history of using integrated assessment models — frameworks for describing humanity's impact on Earth, including the source of global greenhouse gases, land use and land cover change, and other resource - related drivers of anthropogenic climate change.

The true gloomsters are scientists who look at climate through the lens of «dynamical systems,» a mathematics that describes things that tend to change suddenly and are difficult to predict.

The new text will say: «To describe those who don't accept climate science or dispute the world is warming from man - made forces, use climate change doubters or those who reject mainstream climate science.

The models» results also play a significant role in the latest assessment report issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), where they are used to link the mitigation options described for different sectors such as buildings, transport, or energy supply.

It asks researchers to fill out a short form asking why they want to fight climate change and to describe their proposed research.

The NRC asked the committee to summarize current scientific information on the temperature record for the past two millennia, describe the main areas of uncertainty and how significant they are, describe the principal methodologies used and any problems with these approaches, and explain how central is the debate over the paleoclimate temperature record to the state of scientific knowledge on global climate change.

Earlier this year, Christiana Figueres, head of the UN climate talks, described it as a summons for world leaders «to meet for one day under one roof to discuss one thing: climate change».

In the video, Ash describes her work to understand the balance between the massive amount of methane, a greenhouse gas, under the Antarctic seafloor and the microbes that consume it and keep it from escaping to the atmosphere, as well as the microbes» susceptibility to climate change.

(A) identifies natural resources that are likely to be impacted by climate change and ocean acidification and describes those impacts;

The Pentagon itself has described climate change as an «immediate» risk and major threat multiplier, one that could cause crops to fail, spark mass migrations and increase conflict for dwindling water resources (to say nothing of the threat sea level rise poses to U.S. naval bases around the world).

-- As soon as practicable after the date of the enactment of this title, the President shall provide a notification on climate change described in paragraph (2) to each foreign country the products of which are not exempted under section 768 (a)(1)(E).

This is an attitude that some sincere climate change «skeptics» (as opposed to ExxonMobil - funded deliberate frauds) exhibit: their so - called «skepticism» arises from an a priori sense that human activities can not possibly affect the Earth system in the way that the theory of anthropogenic global warming describes.

Modes of climate variability contribute to significant MHW variations both regionally, and globally, but do not greatly affect the centennial - scale secular changes described above.

This is the second in a series of articles that describe how scholars at Washington University in St. Louis are bringing their varied skills to bear on the issue of climate change and global warming.

There is, however, little published work describing the response of glacier margin positions to this regional climate change.

The three most widespread and commercially important tree species and their direct and indirect sensitivities to climate change are described below.